Kids Celebrate!: Activities for Special Days Throughout the Year

Children love learning about special days and celebrating them with arts and crafts. Skipping the typical green shamrocks, orange paper pumpkins, and red doily hearts, Kids Celebrate! lists 100 days to remember with 200 related activities for children and grown-ups. There’s a Hansel and Gretel walk for Jakob Grimm’s birthday, a Mexican fiesta for Cinco de Mayo, and a first aid kit to make in honor of Clara Barton’s Birthday. The significance of each special day is explained in this educational tribute to the holidays, history, and accomplishments of many cultures and many people.

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The Wind at Work traces the history of windmills and how their design and function have changed over time. It includes more than a dozen wind-related activities such as conducting science experiments, cooking a traditional windmiller meal, sewing windmill patterns, and keeping track of household energy use. Information on how wind turbines (modern windmills) can produce energy as an alternative to nonrenewable fossil fuels is covered as well.

Wind at Work: An Activity Guide to Windmills

Children's Books

Woelfle, Gretchen

Literature & Fiction

Gotta dance! Gotta sing! Gotta do most anything because it’s show time! In Show Time! kids will learn to become “triple threat” performers, developing their skills as singers, dancers, and actors through more than 80 activities that include imitating a musician or musical instrument, acting out a song, creating a mirror dance, making puppets and playbills, and more. Along the way, they’ll learn about the history of musicals, discover musicals about history, and find out how to get it all together before the curtain goes up. Show Time! is perfect for teachers needing to prepare performers for a show; for parents looking for fun ways to fill spare minutes with their kids at home, in the car, or in a doctor’s waiting room; and for kids wanting ways to enjoy themselves on their own or in a small group. Several play scripts, a list of suggested musicals for kids, and a play glossary are included.

Show Time!: Music, Dance, and Drama Activities for Kids

Lisa Bany-Winters

Winter Day Play!: Activities, Crafts, and Games for Indoors and Out

With a computer paint or drawing program, a printer, crayons, and a little imagination, kids can explore the world of color and the endless design possibilities of a computer by crafting multi-media art. This four-color activity book combines this tool of today with an old favorite—the crayon. Kids will learn how to print out and paint a picture frame; use a mouse to create a Matisse masterpiece; create a kite of rainbow colors; and more while learning about primary, secondary, and complementary colors. Crayons and Computers includes ideas to extend crayon creations beyond the confines of paper and into cyberspace.

Crayons and Computers: Computer Art Activities for Kids to Explore Color

Sabbeth, Carol

Computers & Technology

Shakespeare for Kids: His Life and Times 21 Activities

From the pitas of ancient Mesopotamia to the white breads of the modern bakery, kids can explore the globe with more than 30 exciting recipes and activities about the history of bread. Loaded with things to do . . . Well written and well researched.--Tom McMakin, Director of Field Support, Great Harvest Bread Co.

Loaves of Fun: A History of Bread with Acitvities and Recipes from Around the Wo

ELIZABETH HARBISON

Guide to America's Best Historic Sites - paperback edition

America's Best Historic Sites 101 Terrific Places to Take the Family

B.J. Welborn

Travel

From Publishers Weekly: Set on a small hog farm in Indiana, this moving chronicle follows one year (1976) in the life of an impressionable seven-year-old and his hard-luck family. Young Crandell was a very plump child. According to family lore, he consistently gained weight even though no one ever saw him eating dinner. When somebody spied him suckling a pig sow with the other piglets at the trough, he earned his moniker: Pig Boy. Crandell, whose work has appeared in the Nebraska Review and elsewhere, relates the story of his nickname, as well as the trials of his childhood: his family were bankrupt sharecroppers; they struggled with expensive medical bills from Crandell's mother's hysterectomy; Crandell had to have several fingers re-attached after a farm accident. He captures the emotional adhesive of family bonds when he portrays how they came together to love and support each other in crisis, committed to one another and their home. Richly anecdotal, the work leaves no detail unexamined, whether physical or ethereal. Crandell addresses everything-the loss of property and pride, the presidential candidacy of Jimmy Carter, childhood fears, the effects of the TV series Roots on a poor white family, the far-reaching effects of his mother's depression-with poetry and imagination. This version of growing up in America delivers several compelling, stellar moments. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Pig Boy's Wicked Bird a Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Doug Crandell

Arts & Literature

Explore the world of make-believe with fun and easy-to-make props and costumes. Create a life-size igloo out of milk jugs or put on a puppet show in your very own Lighted Box Stage! Making Make-Believe offers storybook play, games, cooking, mini-plays, dress-up costumes, puppet ideas, and more to enrich children's play. Unlock the imagination of young children, allowing them to create their own dramatic play experiences. With over 125 activities and projects, this book is packed with ideas for hours of creative fun!

Making Make-Believe: Fun Props, Costumes, and Creative Play Ideas

Kohl, MaryAnn F.

Humor & Entertainment

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